Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Issue is that Lexmoto are made of cheese. They are worth more in parts than as a whole bike - mostly because people constantly need replacements!!

This is what I needed to hear!

Tucano urbano scooter skirt + muffs + heated grips and you can survive anything. Did two years on a scooter with that setup and was never cold or wet.

Have rock/mx type handguards on mc with Oxford regular heated grips, wearing 3 season gloves its warm enough. A winter glove then ends up insulating you from the heated grip and tbh they are so bulky you can barely control the bike.

If mc generator has enough capacity without melting any wiring a heated jacket is defo way to go. Borrowed a mates bmw r1200 with a jacket plugged in last winter, 2 to 4c day ride, yeah legs got cold and stiff eventually, but managed a big day out without dying of cold.

Suppose I should clean it sometime.

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Good idea to strongly consider Honda to begin.

So follow up on the XSR700 - the Lithuanian guy sent his friend to pay and organised a courier so not an international scam!

Bike is gone, money is on my account.

Next rant is MCE insurance who are refunding me zero as they calculated that my £170 annual premium, after 6 months, is worth £33. And their cancellation fee is £75 so they used their professional discretion to not charge me to cancel 🙄

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Congratulations on the successful sale, and commiserations on the scam that is insurance companies.

That’s great. Really was a massive coincidence then.

@Vince - your annual premium is £170?! Thought you were London based...?

All's well that ends well. Also insurance companies... I feel your pain.

I am, yes - New Cross SE14.

The options were:
£170 TPO
or
£1200 Full Comp

So I used the unspent money to buy a tracker and an extra Kryptonite NY chain

Not really into motorbikes myself, but a really good friend of mine has recently started a business: https://www.instagram.com/the_machine_shop_ltd/

You pay a monthly amount to use workshop stuff for motorbikes. I think most people do maintenance and track day preps on their bikes, pretty cool.

Please feel free to give him a follow, Bob is an awesome guy.

Is this the very same as featured by Henry Cole the other day? Looked a great idea and well laid out space.

If Henry Cole is the guy on ITV 4, then yes.

It's pretty awesome tbh. I'm not into motorcycles, but I drop by a few times a week just to do bits to my bicycles.

I've powder-coated some forks, polished a set of hubs, and I paid to have a welding lesson, which was actually a huge amount of fun and far more rewarding than I was expecting!

I've known Bob (owner) since I was about 19/20, a very good friend of mine!

Worth mentioning that if anyone were to take a trip to there, he's awesome and will greet anyone with a hot drink and a chat! The workshop is based in Hinkley.

https://the-machine-shop.co.uk

Yes indeed, the marmite guy on ITV.

Am planning to visit if I can make it during a visit elsewhere, as I’m otherwise so far away.

I paid to have a welding lesson, which was actually a huge amount of fun and far more rewarding than I was expecting!

I was only chatting to the wife the other day about wanting to learn to weld. Took a look at the site earlier and was tempted by the MIG session. Interested in welding box steel for some home furniture.

It's not that much of a trek to Hinkley from Cambridge so I might consider booking something in the new year.

Give it a go! :)

Tempted to chat to Bob to see if he could get someone up there teaching frame building.

Bob used to be head of the metal fab shop at a motorcycle manufacturer, he knows his stuff.

He's literally got everything you'd need to make a frame there, other than a jig and the pipes!

Go big or go home right? Got myself a gerbing heated jacked liner, which was like a warm hug all the way to work this morning (although it wasn’t that cold tbh). Warm arms = warm hands seemed work out ok but I have those cheap muffs incoming anyway.

Having a nightmare trying to get hold of an exhaust hanger/pillion peg blanking plate - two cancelled ebay purchases and apparently no stock in the UK anywhere 🤷‍♂️

We now own a pressure washer. I’m not sure I like the bike less-unclean. Looks weird.

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Careful with the amount of pressure and where you direct it with a pressure washer. You can have issues with water ingress past seals if you're not careful....

Yep this is what I’ve worried about. I had avoided direct pressure on the bike anywhere, constantly moving the jet, and doing my best not to aim at any of the bearings or seals. We’ll see how unsuccessful I was in a few weeks/months when shit starts to go wrong.

For the most part the bike is clean, except around the bearings and seals, where I actively avoided spraying.

I jet washed my TZR at a garage in Vauxhall one winter. Wouldn't start afterwards so I pushed it all the way back to Fulham where it started outside my house because the coil had dried out by then.

The joy of lightweight two strokes! A GSXR may have been more of a challenge!!
I miss the smell of Castrol R in the morning. And I reckon you miss your TZR too. 😁

Was just enjoying looking at this and it sold straight away! Bugger!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/293855971573

Drum front, and incorrect registration (185 registered as 125, no mention of V5), no keyed ignition, rust bucket, dodgy welding. Description states it’s a mess.

On the one hand, yea it looks cool. But that looks awful for a bike you intend to actually use.

Thank you for being the voice of reason. Fortunately I’ve realised I should probably save up so I have £1200-1500 to spend so that I can buy something I can sell on for similar to what I paid once I’ve got my proper bike license.